cSPACE Marda Loop

Wool Vessels: Felting & Shibori Dyeing Workshop with Lyn Pflueger
2025-07-12 13:00 - 15:30 (America/Edmonton)
In this beginner-friendly class, participants will create felted vessels and decorate them through a Shibori resist dyeing technique.

July 12
1:00 – 3:30
Ages 14 +
Discover the art of transforming wool into a unique, naturally dyed vessel in this step-by-step workshop. Guided by renowned fibre artist Lyn Pflueger, feel the soft wool transform under your fingertips using the meditative art of wet felting. Then, dive into the world of Shibori, the centuries-old Japanese resist-dyeing techniques that produce mesmerizing patterns in rich, soulful indigo.
This beginner-friendly class is perfect for anyone curious about the world of fibrecraft. Unplug for an afternoon and rediscover the joy of making something with your hands. All materials are provided—just bring your imagination, and leave with a one-of-a-kind piece of functional art!
A bit about your Instructor:
Lyn Pflueger was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, and now lives in Bragg Creek. She graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design with a BFA and taught as a sessional instructor in their fibre department. Lyn is part of the Sheep Creek Weavers and continues to teach textile techniques. Her personal interests include felt making, the structure of surfaces, the properties of textile materials, shibori dyeing and texture technqiues.

Ixchel Textiles: Backstrap Weaving Demonstration with Carmen Vazquez-Mackay
2025-07-12 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Edmonton)
Carmen will be demonstrating her backstrap weaving practice during the Farmers and Makers Market on the front lawn of cSPACE

Farmers & Makers Market at cSPACE Marda Loop
2025-07-12 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-07-05 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-06-28 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-06-21 10:00 - 14:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop – Art Park
Farmers & Makers Market at cSPACE Marda Loop
From May 24 to October 4, 2025, join us every Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM for the Farmers & Makers Market at cSPACE Marda Loop: an unforgettable shopping, arts, and entertainment experience!
Market: This curated Alberta-approved farmers’ market showcases a diverse lineup of local growers, artisans, and creative entrepreneurs. Explore fresh produce, handcrafted goods, and unique treasures that reflect Calgary’s thriving maker community.
Artist Alley: For those who love discovering new artistic talent, Artist Alley is your must-visit stop. This dedicated space highlights emerging and semi-professional artists, creative entrepreneurs, and community impact groups, offering a platform to share their work with the community.
Sarina Builds Stage: The Farmers and Makers Market experience is never complete without music! Relax and enjoy performances by some of Calgary’s most talented local musicians on the Sarina Builds Stage. With a rotating lineup of artists, every Saturday brings a fresh soundtrack to your market visit.
Link: https://cspacemardaloop.com/farmers-makers-market/

Wood Burning Weekly - Thursday Night Pyrography Sessions
2025-07-10 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Edmonton) | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Thursday nights are all right for burning wood and making something fun! Pyrography is notoriously relaxing:) come hang out Thursdays at 6pm

CALL Member Weekly Guitar Jam
2025-07-10 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-03 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-06-26 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Invitation to Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners (CALL) members.
Bring your guitar and a favourite song and join other CALL members for Guitar Jam. Weekly events are held in the CALL room, Suite #310, at cSPACE Marda Loop.
Thursdays 10am-12pm.
To learn more please email: info@calgarylifelonglearners.ca
Not yet a CALL member? Now is a great time to join and enjoy a full year of “making music” or joining other Interest Groups at cSPACE Marda Loop. Annual fee $50 — learn more: https://calgarylifelonglearners.ca/Membership

Teen Sew Summer Camp with Riyoko Work/Shop
2025-07-10, 2025-07-09, 2025-07-08, 2025-07-07
Come learn how to sew and start making your own projects!
Students will learn their way around the machine through various projects and gain the foundational sewing skills to translate into future projects for themselves. Students will learn how to read patterns, how to use choose fabrics and patterns right for the projects they are making, how to embellish and decorate their projects with hand sewing techniques, and time permitting, repair skills, such as hems, and repairing rips and holes in creative ways. They will make simple and functional projects like a drawstring backpack ( to hold all the things) and pajama pants. The skills of sewing can seem daunting, but with the right instruction, it can be fun and sew much easier than you think!
This camp runs Monday to Thursday. It is four 5-hour sessions. The camp dates are:
July 7, 8, 9 & 10

Finding Peace and Joy Within
2025-07-09 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-07-02 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-06-25 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Finding Peace & Joy Within
This weekly meditation group for CALL members has returned by popular request. Each session includes periods of meditation (sitting comfortably in chairs) to allow participants the opportunity to experience the benefits for themselves, and the opportunity to share experiences and insights with others. About half of the session will be talk/discussion and about half will be meditation.
If you are not a CALL member, you can join for the annual fee of $50 and attend this and many other interest groups.

Arts Community Pancake Palooza
2025-07-08 09:00 - 11:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop – Art Park
Giddy-up arts and culture mavericks! Join us Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at cSPACE Marda Loop’s Art Park for Calgary’s only Stampede Breakfast created by artists, for arts champions. This vibrant, all-ages morning gathering will serve up classic pancakes, live music and lively conversations, with a generous helping of community spirit. It’s a celebration of Calgary’s arts and culture sector—its creators, supporters, and future-builders.
This free, public event welcomes everyone, with a special invitation to:

Artists and creators (all disciplines, all career stages)
Arts workers & administrators
Arts-serving organizations and collectives
Patrons, funders, and community investors in Calgary’s creative sector.

Let’s foster meaningful connections across Calgary’s arts community—one pancake at a time.
Live Music by: Irene Poole
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 9 – 11 AM
Location: cSPACE Marda Loop 1721 29 Avenue SW
RSVP & Mark your calendars!
Presented with the support of: cSPACE Projects, Rozsa Foundation, The Calgary Foundation, Alliance Francaise, Aroma Cafe

New in 2025: Community Showcase Opportunity
This year’s breakfast will feature a Community Showcase for arts groups and organizations to:

Promote upcoming seasons or initiatives
Share career, volunteer, or engagement opportunities
Connect directly with Calgary’s creative workforce and their audiences

Up to 24 showcase spots available under four shared tents (first come, first serve). Please note: this is a non-sales opportunity to build visibility, not a market. Interested groups are welcome to email opportunities@cspaceprojects.com

Sonoma Art Studio exhibition: Indépendants
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-19 | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Sonoma Art Studio 2025 Student Exhibition: Indépendants
cSPACE Marda Loop
Gallery Levels 1 and 2
July 8 – 19, 2025
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Closed on Sunday)
“Indépendant”, meaning “independent” in French, traces its roots back to the Salon des Indépendants, which began in Paris in 1884. Upholding the motto “Sans jury ni récompense” (“No jury, no awards”), the original exhibition was a bold statement against institutionalized art and authoritative selection processes. It sought to create an open platform where all artists could present their work without restriction. In the same spirit, our Indépendants exhibition today embraces that tradition. Regardless of genre, style, or level of experience, this space has been curated to allow artists to express their voices freely. The works from Sonoma Art Studio reflect the power of unbounded expression and the authenticity of independent creation.
We invite you to experience this celebration of sincerity and artistic freedom— not through the lens of judgement, but through the discovery of new perspectives and emotional resonance.
Learn More at: www.artstudiosonoma.com

Intermediate Bridge Club
2025-07-07 15:15 - 18:00, 2025-06-30 15:15 - 18:00, 2025-06-23 15:15 - 18:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
This friendly CALL bridge group has players at intermediate and advanced skill levels.
Some meet in person at cSPACE Marda Loop, while some prefer to meet online using BBO and Zoom.
CALL Members please register on the website.
Not a CALL Member? Now is a great time to join. Your annual fee provides access to many Interest Groups and monthly Speaker Events.

Exhibition: Cabinet of Curiosities
2025-07-07 - 2025-08-25 | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Cabinet of Curiosities by Lizzie Wharton
cSPACE Marda Loop
Cubbyhole Gallery Level 2
July 7 – August 25, 2025
8:00 AM – 8:00 PM (Closed on Sunday)
Lizzie Wharton is a recent graduate of Alberta Univeristy of the Arts in Graphic Design and Advertising. She is currently working at the Alberta Craft Council as a gallery assistant, and this is her first time showing her work in a public space.
Her paintings are inspired by Victorian field guides, and she focuses on mixing images of real-life specimens with her own tantasy creations inspired by playing Dungeons & Dragons with her friends. Many of the pieces in this show are of real creatures, but some, even within series, are entirely fictional.
Learn More at: www.clevercorvid.ca

Exhibition: Ghost Days
2025-07-01 - 2025-07-28 | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Ghost Days by Terrance Houle
cSPACE Marda Loop
Cupola Gallery Level 4
July 1 – 28, 2025
8:00 AM – 8:00 PM (Closed on Sunday)
GHOST DAYS is an ongoing project (started 2014) by Terrance Houle who evokes our colonial and non-colonial histories that exist in the light of night as in the darkness of the day, GHOST DAYS awakens a collaboration with artists, audience, and spirit. GHOST DAYS combines video, performance, photography, and music to conjure spirits and ghosts as audience and collaborators.
This small photo exhibition of experimental works, based in Film & Digital Photography, celebrating the artists Niitsitapi spiritual up bringing and his 35th year of graduating Grade 9 from King Edward Junior High. Acknowledging the Land, the Brick, and spirit of Reclamation.
Learn More at: www.ghostdays.com
IG: TJHouleyyc

Exhibition: Midsummer Escapade
2025-06-30 08:00 - 2025-08-11 17:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Exhibition: Midsummer Escapade
A group exhibition presented by Artpoint Gallery and Studios Society
cSPACE Marda Loop
Gallery Level 3
June 30 – Aug 11, 2025
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Closed Sundays)

Warm days and a journey of art!
Learn more at: www.artpoint.ca
Opening reception:
* July 3 from 5-8pm
Artists in the exhibition:
@simonaitchison
Janis burns
@kcopithorne_illustration
@ravenbluecreative
@foxbrenda33
@freed.erin
@night.sun.saturn
@raha.jazayeri.art
@natashafayejensen
Charlene Kroeger
@dianne_j_leong_art
Terra McDonald
@lilmolstad
@nacim.rt
@bjsosaart
@sharonthompson.ca
@dreamsplats

Craft Charms
2025-06-28 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Edmonton)
Join Alberta Craft for a drop-in make and take activity to create a bag charm

Join Alberta Craft at The Works Art & Design Festival for a drop-in make and take activity to create your very own bag charm. This is a beginner-friendly event that’s all about fun, creativity, and leaving with something uniquely you.

FREE drop-in event—no RSVP required
Ages 6+ (kids under 10 must be supervised)
All supplies included

ReFashion with Riyoko Work/Shop
2025-06-28 10:00 - 14:00 UTC
Come explore how to deconstruct and reconstruct clothing into one-of-a-kind pieces of your own.
In this class, students will learn techniques on how to take apart, and put back together clothing* to create new fashion pieces of their own. From appliqué and patches to making a vest from a jacket, the possibilities are whatever one can imagine (within the functionality of construction;))! And with the right instruction, it can be fun and sew much fun to dive into!
*A few weeks prior to class students will be contacted by the instructor to get a feel for what your projects are.
This course is two 4-hour sessions each. The session dates are:
Saturday March 15 & 22
and/ or
Saturday March 29 & April 5
and/ or
Saturday June 7 & 14
and/ or
Saturday June 21 & 28
More info here: https://riyoko.ca/products/refashion

Intro to Wood Burning aka Pyrography for Beginners -Level 1
2025-06-22 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Edmonton) | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Learn to burn! This intro covers everything you need to know to get started.

Introduction to Wood Burning (Pyrography) for Beginners
Learn something new and have fun during this hands on workshop. This small class is perfect for those who are new to wood burning and want to explore the art of pyrography. This is also a good opportunity to try the Razer Tip Woodburning tool before you buy one. You will learn step by step how to create a wood burned work of art. Little art experience is necessary just some time and patience. There is something very soothing and relaxing about burning patterns into wood. You will learn how to use the wood-burner safely. We will go over the difference between the wood burning tools that are available. You will learn how to transfer your drawing onto the wood, which wood works best, and how to add a bit of colour. Wood is supplied and the tool that we use is the Razer Tip woodburning system. Feel free to bring your own reference material to trace or draw from or use templates provided. Some people freehand and just go for it and some people use reference material and trace their design. You can also do a bit of both:) Magically everyone does something totally different and unique to them! It’s a fun thing to do for a date night or a new activity with friends or family. There are only 4 people maximum in a class, ages 12 and up. If you would like to book an evening with your younger kids check out my website:)
Location: 1721 29 Avenue SW Suite #225, Calgary, AB T2T 1P5
Discover the joy of transforming ordinary pieces of wood into your own unique works of art.

Reception: Craft Perspectives
2025-06-21 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Edmonton)
Join Alberta Craft and the artists in attendance for the opening reception of Craft Perspectives.

This year, Alberta Craft is celebrating 45 years of promoting and advocating for Craft in our province. As part of the celebration, we are presenting Craft Perspectives, which invites artists to reflect on the past while considering the future of Craft in Alberta.
Craft Perspectives showcases new works inspired by historical objects, archival collections, and cultural artifacts found across the province. Artists have delved into museum vaults, explored archival treasures, and uncovered forgotten stories—reimagining them through the lens of contemporary Craft.
Free | Everyone Welcome

Craft Rocks
2025-06-21 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Edmonton)
Join Alberta Craft for a drop-in make and take activity to create and adopt your very own Pet Rock

Join Alberta Craft at The Works Art & Design Festival for a drop-in make and take activity to create and adopt your very own Pet Rock—a no-maintenance friend that’s full of personality.

FREE drop-in event—no RSVP required
Ages 6+ (kids under 10 must be supervised)
All supplies included
